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Coco Chanel: Those who create...

Coco Chanel: Those who create...

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are...

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Diane Arbus: There's a quality...

Diane Arbus: There's a quality...

There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a...

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Mary Kay Ash: Sandwich every bit...

Mary Kay Ash: Sandwich every bit...

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.

Source: In The...

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Rosabeth Moss Kanter: The [commune] movement...

Rosabeth Moss Kanter: The [commune] movement...

The [commune] movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the...

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Vita Sackville-West: Ambition, old as...

Vita Sackville-West: Ambition, old as...

Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.

Source: 'No...

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Vita Sackville-West: Nothing shows up...

Vita Sackville-West: Nothing shows up...

Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of...

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Anne Bradstreet: If what I...

Anne Bradstreet: If what I...

If what I do prove well, it won't advance,
They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by...

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May Swenson: Human double-barreled eyes,<br>in...

May Swenson: Human double-barreled eyes,
in...

Human double-barreled eyes,
in their narrow blind,
hope to shoot and hit
-- if they can find it
-- the...

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May Swenson: THE DNA MOLECULE<br>THE...

May Swenson: THE DNA MOLECULE
THE...

THE DNA MOLECULE
THE DNA MOLECULE
THE DNA MOLECULE
is The Nude Descending a Staircase
a circular one. See...

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Louise Brooks: Most beautiful but...

Louise Brooks: Most beautiful but...

Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't...

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Tallulah Bankhead: It's one of...

Tallulah Bankhead: It's one of...

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theater that only one man in it can count on steady work -- the night...

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Lily Tomlin: Don't be afraid...

Lily Tomlin: Don't be afraid...

Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had...

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Lily Tomlin: When we talk...

Lily Tomlin: When we talk...

When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.

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Kathleen Turner: You're not too...

Kathleen Turner: You're not too...

You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man.

Source: Turner, as Matty...

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Lana Turner: The truth is,...

Lana Turner: The truth is,...

The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold,...

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Tallulah Bankhead: I thought I...

Tallulah Bankhead: I thought I...

I thought I told you to wait in the car.

Source: On seeing a former lover after an...

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Lily Tomlin: Reality is nothing...

Lily Tomlin: Reality is nothing...

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

Source: In Pearls of Wisdom, ed. J. Agel...

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Carol Burnett: Words, once they...

Carol Burnett: Words, once they...

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

Source: In Reader's...

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Sandra Bernhard: Love is the...

Sandra Bernhard: Love is the...

Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.

Source: In Words of...

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Lily Tomlin: If truth is...

Lily Tomlin: If truth is...

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Source: In...

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